Domain Magnate

The recent live auction at the TRAFFIC show netted only $2,555,00, which is a big downtime from last action. The most lively domain of the day was one we picked out last week, postalcodes.com, which rode all the way from a $1,000 reserve, to a $42,000 selling price. Reportedly there were only 75 people in attendance at the start of the auction and another 75 online, which is quite different from previous shows when there were several hundred people in live audience. The highest price recorded was $225,000 which was a tie between, GasPrices.com and InsuranceRates.com.

As expected .mobi is losing its popularity fast: computers.mobi and men.mobi sold for $9,500 and $10,000 respectively. The highest .mobi of the day was mortgage.mobi which sold for $18,000.

Only 105 of the domains sold. Here is the full list of all domains that sold :

$225,000 gasprices.com
$225,000 insurancerates.com
$170,000 rainbow.com
$122,000 athlete.com
$120,000 ow.com
$120,000 ringtones.org read more »

FragerFactor reports:

“I’ve never understood the need for .mobi, my mobile site is doing fine with a .com domain.”

Tim Berners-Lee, the father of the Web, is none too keen on dotMOBI.

Berners-Lee — who also is the director of the W3C consortium and a senior research scientist with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology — argued that adding domain names indiscriminately is not the best way to insure the Web can scale up and out. read more »

$850,000 SkiResorts.com

$460,000 Meds.com

$300,000 DVDs.com

$200,000 CPC.com

$110,000 Porn.mobi

$110,000 AutoClassifieds.com

$110,000 GarageSales.com

$110,000 PenisEnlargment.com, PenisSize.com and PenisSizes.com

$100,000 Husband.com

$92,000 SearchEngines.com

$85,000 Niche.com

$80,000 GoldDigger.com and GoldDiggers.com

$80,000 Skinny.COM

$77,000 Cotton.com

$70,000 Hoax.com read more »